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Meaning of cercar | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1

θeɾˈkaɾ

Definitions

to encircle
to fence, to wall
to surround; to besiege

Conjugation

Browse the table or drill it — all tenses, moods, and persons of cercar.

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Equivalents

العربية حاصر

Català assetjar encerclar

Čeština obléhat

Cymraeg amgylchynu cylchu

Dansk belejre

Deutsch bedrängen belagern einfassen Einkesseln umstellen umzingeln

Ελληνικά περικυκλώνω πολιορκώ

English besiege Besiege circle Encircle encircle Enclose fence Fence Surround surround wall

Esperanto ĉirkaŭi sieĝi

Español asaetar asaetear asediar circuir circundar poner sitio saetar saetear sitiar

فارسی فراگرفتن فراگیری محاصره

Suomi motittaa piirittää saartaa ympäröidä

Français assaillir assiéger encercler

Gaeilge ciorclaigh timpeallaigh

Gàidhlig cuairtich dèan sèist air

עברית צר

Magyar körbevesz ostromol

Հայերեն պաշարել

Bahasa Indonesia mengepung

Italiano accerchiare assediare cingere circondare contornare

日本語囲圍

한국어 囲圜裹

Latina circumdō obsideō

Lëtzebuergesch belageren

Te Reo Māori tarawhiti whiwhi

Монгол тойруулах

Nederlands belagen belegeren omsingelen

Polski oblegać okrążać okrążyć otaczać otoczyć

Português assediar cercar sitiar

Română împresura încercui înconjura

Русский окружать окружить осадить осаждать

Svenska belägra

తెలుగు గిరికొను చుట్టుకొను చుట్టుముట్టు

Türkçe kuşatmak

Українська оточи́ти ото́чувати

Examples

“Para esto ual reer o lugar jnchado et çercallo de semesugas para liurar ende o sange que y ha para seyr fora”

For this is valid to scrape the swollen place and then to encircle it with leeches, so freeing the blood that is there, letting it go out

“por njhũa cousa nonnos leixes partir de Troya, desque a cercaren, ata que non seja tomada et ata que toda sua gent non seja destroýda per gran crueza”

Under no circumstance should you release them from Troia, from the very moment that they surround it, not until it is seized and all of its people is destroyed with great cruelty

CEFR level

Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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